Featured Make Do And Mend

When you are desperate and broke.

 

I have seen the wooden wheel with disc and cable operated pincers before but not the others.

Ingenuity at work.

I drilled two holes and bolted a block of wood to the sidestand on my yam 200 to make it more upright, needs must

 

A bit of both I think.

 

That last front sprocket is a real pearl. Not only is the welding shite but what happens now the teeth are shot

 

I reckon with some of those fixes, soon to be broker.

 

Used to see lot of that sort of fix with mole grips and spanners in the sixties....but some of those are styling choices and some look like good old keep it running whatever form India and far east.

 

I always carried a pair of mole grips when out in the woods on my mountain bike after snapping a pedal and borrowing some from a friend to use for the 5 mile pedal back.

 

Craftsmanship at its finest...................

 

Necessity is the mother of invention

 

OK being a Yank I had no idea what a mole grip was had to google it

mole grip = vise grip knock-off

 

vice grip is for wankers I think

you made me look DD

 

This is the modern equivalent of bailing twine or wire.....

 

There is a difference. Vice grips don't take a chunk out of your palm when you snap them open / closed !!!
I can't recall, as the last pair of mole grips I owned got thrown 100 yds into the field next to my house after the feckin thing 'got' me



Vice grips only in my tool chest now

 

And here was me thinking this was another DC 'cut & paste' thread !!!

Derail successful, well done chaps

 

Now THAT reminds me of when my Dad lost his wallet.

We had this outside toilet......with a broken seat. He kept meaning to fix it but the crack didn’t matter because he/we only ever used it when nipping in from the garden.

But one day he got caught short. And sat down. And stood up. Which must have been when his wallet fell out of his hip pocket and got kicked behind the pan......

 

I've had the mole grip gearchange at the 1980 TT on my T140V. Coming back from watching the racing, my gear lever broke in Ramsey, luckily outside the Swan inn. A fella in the pub said a welder lives opposite,so I went over and he got his 14 yr old lad to do it. Happy days so I gave the lad a fiver. Half way over the mountain the weld snapped???? So the moleys came out. I'm ashamed to admit they where still on for a couple of weeks when I got home. tut tut!

 

There's a metal version for a more permanent temporary fix lol

 

Genius.

 

Great use of an old wheelie bin here!

 

Very inventive